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July 23, 2007
Genocide Generals
The national myth in Germany is that the German army, the Wehrmacht, did not participate in the genocide of World War II. This was, so the myth goes, exclusively the province of the SS, the Einsatzgruppen, and local fascist collaborators. Common sense has always whispered that this is nonsense. Such a division of labor cannot exist when murder exists on an industrial scale. Now, recordings—mountains of recordings—have been released that implicate the Wehrmacht in every nook and cranny of the Holocaust.
And I have a prediction.
In not too many days, these recordings and transcripts will be denounced by British Muslims, by the Arab/Muslim world in general, as forgeries, as the work of a Zionist conspiracy to drum up sympathy and support for Israel.
These historically invaluable transcripts will never be included in any British syllabus for British Muslims will denounce them as Zionist propaganda. British Muslims will demand equal time for the quote: so-called Palestinian genocide, unquote.
During the latter half of World War II, the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) undertook a massive clandestine operation of which the full, extraordinary details are only now coming to light.
Between 1942 and 1945, a section of SIS - known as MI19 - secretly recorded no fewer than 64,427 conversations between captured German generals and other senior officers, all without their knowledge or even suspicion. The 167 most significant of these are about to be published for the first time.
Together, they provide us with a goldmine of information about what the German High Command privately thought of the war, Adolf Hitler, the Nazis and each other. They also explode the post-war claim of the Wehrmacht that they did not know what the SS were doing to the Jews, Slavs, mentally disabled and others among what they termed "untermensch" (sub-humans).
To read the entire article, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Kent Budge.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at July 23, 2007 10:28 AM
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My grandfather's family, who lived in Marionpole, Lithuania, were entirely wiped out by Wehrmacht regulars in 1941. The letters he sent them were returned to him with Wehrmacht stamps on the envelope which read "person's unknown," and we have the letters in a safe deposit box to prove it.
Posted by: Jake at July 23, 2007 11:09 AM
Jake:
That's an amazing artifact, not that it would make a bit of difference to the Holocaust deniers. They would just point out what wonderful and thoughtful mailmen the Germans were.
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at July 23, 2007 11:31 AM
It's a good thing my father is fluent in German, or we wouldn't have known how important those stamps were.
Posted by: Jake at July 23, 2007 11:42 AM
To deny the Holocaust requires a truly impressive ability to ignore huge amounts of evidence that is right in front of your eyes. This is true now, and it must have been vastly more true when the Holocaust was actually occurring. Even without these tapes, the idea that the Wehrmacht was not aware of it and complicit in it is just ridiculous.
It is none the less excellent that they have been made public.
Posted by: Michael Jennings at July 24, 2007 09:20 AM
Michael:
To deny the Holocaust not only requires, as you write, "a truly impressive ability to ignore huge amounts of evidence that is right in front of your eyes." But also a massive amount of authentic Jew-hatred.
Mark my words, before you know it, Al Jazeera will be overflowing with "experts" explaining that these recordings are a clever Zionist hoax.
And then the BBC will duly and respectfully report the Al Jazeera reports, and leave it at that because, y'know, it's their culture and all cultures are equal, and post-modern truth is a colonial construct that needs to be deconstructed.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at July 24, 2007 09:48 AM